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Notable numbers: Bush fundraising, children’s health and teen sex


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35 Where North Carolina ranks in the nation for overall child well-being

34 Where it ranks in children’s economic well-being

36 In family and community well-being

28 Where North Carolina ranks in overall education

32 Where it ranks in children’s health

87 The percentage of Americans 24-28 with driver’s licenses in 1994

78 The percentage who had one in 2013

58 The number of pages the one-page House Bill 765, which was about restricting hauling gravel, had after it went through the Senate, which turned it into a deregulation bill affecting mostly the environment

$114 million What Jeb Bush’s presidential campaign and affiliated organizations had raised by the end of June

$30 million What Mitt Romney had raised at this point in the campaign four years ago

44 The percentage of American females ages 15 to 19 who reported having had sex between 2011 and 2013

47 The percentage of males of the same age group who had had sex

51 The percentage of females that age who had had sex in 1988

60 The percentage of males who had in 1988

13 The percentage of 15-year-old girls who had sex between 2011 and 2013

18 The percentage of 15-year-old boys who had

68 The percentage of 18-year-old girls

69 The percentage of 18-year-old boys

18 The percentage of Americans who have an anxiety disorder

This story was originally published July 24, 2015 at 4:37 PM with the headline "Notable numbers: Bush fundraising, children’s health and teen sex."

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